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co-option

co-option is the alternative spelling of cooption.

Meaning of cooption

Noun

cooption (countable and uncountable, plural cooptions)

  1. A cooptation.

Forms of co-option

pluralco-options

Questions about co-option

What is co-option the alternative spelling of?
Co-option is the alternative spelling of cooption.

Words near co-option in the dictionary

  1. co-optations
  2. co-optative
  3. co-opted
  4. co-opter
  5. co-opting
  6. co-option
  7. co-options
  8. co-optive
  9. co-opts
  10. co-ordinate
  11. co-ordinate axes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: co-option (page history and authors); cooption (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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